Evolution or Creation

[myshkin]

What in your studies made you change your mind?

[lolzlandmang]

Too many things to account for in one post, but I think this reading this excerpt got the ball rolling for me:

http://www.authonomy.com/ViewBook.aspx?bookid=16905

[FenderPriest]

Of interest to this topic: "Evangelicals" and Atheists Together: BioLogos takes their complaint against Al Mohler to Huffpo.

[FenderPriest]

Of interest to this topic: "Evangelicals" and Atheists Together: BioLogos takes their complaint against Al Mohler to Huffpo.

To update this: On Darwin and Darwinism: A Letter to Professor Giberson.

[myshkin]

Both seem caught up in arguing.

Mohler does have it wrong that Darwin left the Beagle to prove the theory of evolution. There existed only one feasible alternative in that time - intelligent design ala Paley - which is that the species were, like people believed the Bible said, created as is with no backstory to them and that the Earth was thousands of years old. Darwin preferred this theory before he went on the Beagle and you can catch a glimpse of Darwin's "creationism" especially in the early draft of the Origin of Species. Cambridge Companion to Charles Darwin, if I remember correctly, further explains this.

[FenderPriest]

If Calvinists are accused of excessively defending Calvin, myshkin can be accused of excessively defending Darwin.

[myshkin]

If Calvinists are accused of excessively defending Calvin, myshkin can be accused of excessively defending Darwin.

Hehe.. I do take a deep interest in Darwin, I do, but I'm more interested in the theory of evolution than Darwin. I think these two guys, Mohler and Gibberson, are discussing an irrelevant question and that the real issue at hand is that the theory of evolution works as an explanatory scientific model. Whether Darwin devised "it" from a worldview he had, or he didn't, doesn't change this.

And you can excessively defend both Calvin and Darwin